344: Become the Wind

Change is everywhere. Within us. Around us. And, sometimes, in our longing for some stability, some centre of ‘no change’ in the tumult of our lives, we’ll close ourselves off from the truth of things, numbing ourselves, distracting ourselves, and pretending it isn’t happening.

But the truth is that everything changes. And although we might try to fight it, we human beings long for what is true, what is real, and for intimacy with the world. So can we instead ‘make an altar to change’, and turn towards its ever-presence as a way of deepening our engagement with life, and with one another?

Hosted, as always, by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.

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Become The Wind 

What if we built an altar to change?
Dedicated ourselves to the idea,
bowed down to that which
is not steadfast.

Perhaps there would be an empty bowl
in the middle that might break
at any moment.

Perhaps in the center there is only a shard
that we must learn to worship.
We don’t come to this altar begging,
we come to be reminded
there is nothing to beg for.
We are happy. We are devastated.
We are whole. We are broken.
It rains. It clears.
All at the same time.

Or maybe in the center there is a mirror
Which reflects only what is,
not necessarily what is wanted.
An altar where we come to meet truth,

to bow down to it.
To open the window of the heart
and accept that there is no choice
but to be changed.

Penny Hackett-Evans

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